List of shopping malls in Toronto

The following is a list of shopping malls in Toronto, Canada. The first enclosed shopping mall in Toronto was the Toronto Arcade in Downtown Toronto. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centred design type was Yorkdale Shopping Centre, opened in 1964. For shopping malls surrounding the city of Toronto, please see the template at the bottom of this article.

These shopping centres each have over a hundred stores and are anchored by multiple department stores. They are also the five largest malls in Toronto. Each provides thousands of automobile parking spaces. With the exception of Sherway Gardens, all of these malls have direct pedestrian connections with the Toronto rapid transit system, though Sherway Gardens has bus connections through the Toronto Transit Commission's bus network and MiWay of Mississauga. Yorkdale is Toronto's first major shopping centre.

The district or neighbourhood level of shopping centres in Toronto are typically built around one or a few department stores or grocery supermarkets and are enclosed. These shopping centres typically provide a surrounding free parking lot. Most of these are located in the former suburbs of Toronto, where land was available for parking. There are only three shopping malls of this type within Toronto's pre-1998 city limits: Galleria Mall (at Dufferin Street and Dupont Street), Dufferin Mall (on Dufferin Street south of Bloor Street and north of College Street), and Gerrard Square (on Gerrard Street East east of Pape Avenue). There are a few ethnic malls of this type as well.

One configuration of shopping mall in Toronto is the self-contained type located within a commercial office building, sometimes around a central atrium. This type typically does not provide a surrounding parking lot. These malls typically house from a dozen to several dozen stores. Most of these are connected to a station of the Toronto rapid transit system. In the case of the Hudson's Bay Centre, the mall connects the department store to the Toronto rapid transit system at Bloor-Yonge station.

Open-air shopping plazas are larger collections of stores built with surrounding parking areas, with parking spaces separated from the storefronts by sidewalks. These shopping centres generally serve the local surrounding area and have a large proportion of family-run businesses, some of which are ethnic.

Power centres mainly consist of major national and international big-box stores with large amounts of parking space separate from the stores themselves and serve a larger area than the open-air shopping plazas do.

The following shopping malls have been demolished or closed. Some have been replaced by new strip plazas or re-developed for non-retail uses:

Golden Mile Plaza (1954–1986) at Eglinton Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue, demolished after 1986 fire and later replaced with a power centre named Golden Mile Mall.

Morningside Mall (1979–2002) at Morningside Avenue and Kingston Road, Scarborough; the indoor mall[3] was demolished to make way for outdoor big box plaza called Morningside Crossing[4]

Rexdale Plaza (1957–2004), Islington Avenue and Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke[5] and enclosed 1972. Most stores closed by 2003 and demolition of south end in 2004 with north end of mall retained (with an Asian supermarket and a few small stores). Since 2004, its south end was redeveloped as an outdoor mall with Wal-Mart Supercentre as stand-alone big box store.

Warden Woods Mall or Warden Power Centre (1970–2005) at Warden Avenue north of St. Clair Avenue East, Scarborough[6] was a full mall and later as clearance centre. It has since been demolished and replaced with low-density residential development.

Weston-Finch Mall (1960s–2006), Weston Road and Finch Avenue West, North York - former strip mall (with Zellers, Canadian Tire and McDonald's as tenants) and later as outlet facility; demolished 2006 and vacant lot[when?] awaiting redevelopment for condos.

Westside Mall, Eglinton Avenue West west of Caledonia Road, York - replaced with a power centre of the same name during the early 2000s (with Canadian Tire, Rogers Plus, FreshCo (renamed from Price Chopper), Dollar Tree (formerly occupied by Shoppers Drug Mart) and CIBC as major tenants).

Unnamed strip mall on Sheppard Avenue West east of Weston Road - now[when?] site of Westown residential development.